Peter Pan, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”, sentence 97

His reluctance to return to the cabin impressed them all unfavourably, and the mutinous sounds again broke forth.

Who acts: reluctance, mutinous sounds · What happens: return, impress, break · To what, where: Hook

This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter XV. “HOOK OR ME THIS TIME”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (reluctance, mutinous sounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 reluctance	nmod:poss
2	reluctance	reluctance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 impressed	nsubj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 return	mark
4	return	return	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 reluctance	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 cabin	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cabin	det
7	cabin	cabin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 return	obl
8	impressed	impress	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 impressed	obj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 them	nmod:unmarked
11	unfavourably	unfavourably	ADV	_	8 impressed	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 broke	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 broke	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sounds	det
15	mutinous	mutinous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 sounds	amod
16	sounds	sound	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 broke	nsubj
17	again	again	ADV	_	18 broke	advmod
18	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 impressed	conj
19	forth	forth	ADV	_	18 broke	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 impressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	to-infinitive	Cecco's reluctance not said here			to the cabin result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cabin=Result
2	impress	past	Cecco's reluctance	Hook		unfavourably property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer
3	break	past	the mutinous sounds		again	forth property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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